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An 1874 photo of a squid draped over a bathtub.
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First Giant Squid Photo

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A fish made from pieces of plastic found on the beach swims above a bleached reef made of Styrofoam.
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Bleached Styrofoam Reef

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A bright red sea anemone clings to rocks underwater.
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Red Anemone Clings

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A side-view of translucent hyperiid with a black background.
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Cystisoma

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Jorge Velez-Juarbe, predoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Jorge Velez-Juarbe

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A young visitor holds up his painted fish Gyotaku fish print at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Gyotaku Fish Print

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“In the upper left of this image I can visualize the profile of Pele, the fire goddess of Hawaiian folklore, as if she is whispering to the sea.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Peter Lik.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III; 5
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Kilauea Volcano, Kalapana, Hawaii, USA

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A Pontoh pygmy seahorse
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How Many Seahorse Species?

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a green crochet bacteria
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Make Your Own: Cyanobacterium

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A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.
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Good-Bye Gillnet, Hello Shark Recovery!

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A screenshot from the video with a scientist walking up a dock.
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Ocean Acidification: An Ecosystem Facing Dissolution

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Black coral, primnoid coral, and feather stars flourish deep on the pristine Davidson Seamount.
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Amy Baco-Taylor: Passionate about Deep-Sea Corals

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